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We explore the role of electron correlation in quasi one dimensional quantum wires as the range of the interaction potential is changed and their thickness is varied by performing exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations at various electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Shulenburger , M. Casula , G. Senatore , R. M. Martin

In this paper one deals with the theoretical derivation of spin precession effects in quasi 1D quantum wire models. Such models get characterized by equal coupling strength superpositions of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 E. Papp , C. Micu

Larmor's theorem holds for magnetic systems that are invariant under spin rotation. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling this invariance is lost and Larmor's theorem is broken: for systems of interacting electrons, this gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Shahrzad Karimi , Florent Baboux , Florent Perez , Carsten A. Ullrich , Grzegorz Karczewski , Tomasz Wojtowicz

The relative strengths of Rashba and Dresselhaus terms describing the spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor quantum well (QW) structures are extracted from photocurrent measurements on n-type InAs QWs containing a two-dimensional electron…

We investigate intersubband polaritons formed in the asymmetric quantum well (AQW) embedded into the semiconductor microcavity and study the effects of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) acting on intersubband excitations. The spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

Spin properties of single electron states in laterally coupled quantum dots in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field are studied by exact numerical diagonalization. Dresselhaus (linear and cubic) and Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We map electron spin dynamics from time to space in quantum wires with spatially uniform and oscillating Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The presence of the spin-orbit interaction introduces pseudo-Zeeman couplings of the electron spins to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 Vanita Srinivasa , Jeremy Levy

We investigate the transport properties of ballistic quantum wires in the presence of Zeeman spin splittings and a spatially inhomogeneous Rashba interaction. The Zeeman interaction is extended along the wire and produces gaps in the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sanchez , Llorens Serra , Mahn-Soo Choi

We investigate a one-dimensional wire of interacting electrons connected to semi-infinite leads in the absence and in the presence of a backscattering potential. An incident electron on the clean wire is perfectly transmitted into spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 I. Safi , H. J. Schulz

We predict that a single-level quantum dot without discernible splitting of its spin states develops a spin-precession resonance in charge transport when embedded into a spin valve. The resonance occurs in the generic situation of Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 M. Hell , B. Sothmann , M. Leijnse , M. R. Wegewijs , J. König

We investigate the effect of strong interactions on the spectral properties of quantum wires with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a magnetic field, using a combination of Matrix Product State and bosonization techniques. Quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-07 Georg W. Winkler , Martin Ganahl , Dirk Schuricht , Hans Gerd Evertz , Sabine Andergassen

We introduce an analytical approximation scheme to diagonalize parabolically confined two dimensional electron systems with both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. The starting point of our perturbative expansion is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss

Interactions in one-dimensional (1D) electron systems are expected to cause a dynamical separation of electronic spin and charge degrees of freedom. A promising system for experimental observation of this non-Fermi-liquid effect consists of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Zuelicke , M. Governale

We demonstrate in theory that it is possible to all-electrically manipulate the RKKY interaction in a quasi-one-dimensional electron gas embedded in a semiconductor heterostructure, in the presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Jia-Ji Zhu , Kai Chang , Ren-Bao Liu , Hai-Qing Lin

The spin relaxation rate $1/\tau_s (W)$ in disordered quantum wires with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling is derived analytically as a function of wire width $W$. It is found to be diminished when $W$ is smaller than the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Kettemann

The quantum correction to the conductivity in disordered quantum wires with linear Rashba spin-orbit coupling is obtained. For quantum wires with spin-conserving boundary conditions, we find a crossover from weak anti- to weak localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-25 P. Wenk , S. Kettemann

An alternating electric field, applied to a quantum dot, couples to the electron spin via the spin-orbit interaction. We analyze different types of spin-orbit coupling known in the literature and find two efficient mechanisms of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vitaly N. Golovach , Massoud Borhani , Daniel Loss

Persistent, oscillatory charge and spin currents are shown to be driven by a two-component terahertz laser pulse in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin orbit interactions (SOI) linear in the electron momentum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Marian Nita , Bogdan Ostahie , D. C. Marinescu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

A numerically exact calculation of the T=0 transport properties of a quantum wire interacting with a lateral two-level quantum dot is presented. The wire conductance is calculated for all different states of charge and spin of the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria A. Davidovich , E. V. Anda , C. A. Busser , G. Chiappe

We study the performance of a quantum wire spin filter that is based on the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of the electron-electron interaction. The finite length wire is attached to two semi-infinite nonmagnetic leads.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden